LSAT 146 – Section 1 – Question 20

LSAT 146 - Section 1 - Question 20

June 2016

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QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
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PT146 S1 Q20
+LR
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Net Effect +NetEff
Value Judgment +ValJudg
A
7%
161
B
15%
160
C
1%
146
D
77%
165
E
1%
151
138
150
162
 +Medium 149.45 +SubsectionMedium

Lyle: Admittedly, modernizing the language of premodern plays lessens their aesthetic quality, but such modernizing remains valuable for teaching history, since it makes the plays accessible to students who would otherwise never enjoy them.

Carl: But such modernizing prevents students from understanding fully what the plays said to premodern audiences. Thus, modernizing plays is of no use for teaching history, because students cannot gain deep knowledge of the past from modernized plays.

Speaker 1 Summary
Lyle thinks that modernized plays are a useful way to teach history, albeit an imperfect one. To explain why modernized plays are useful, Lyle says that modernization makes the plays accessible to students who would otherwise not enjoy the play at all.

Speaker 2 Summary
Carl argues that modernized plays are useless to teach history. To explain why, Carl says that modernizing plays prevents students from completely understanding the plays’ original meanings. This then prevents the students from gaining deep knowledge of the past. (Carl is assuming that not providing deep knowledge of the past makes something useless for teaching history.)

Objective
We need to find a disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether modernized plays are useful for teaching history.

A
whether modernizing the language of premodern plays results in plays that have different pedagogical value than the originals
Carl agrees with this, and most likely, so does Lyle. Carl’s conclusion is that modernized plays are pedagogically worse than the originals, which is a difference. Lyle acknowledges that modernized plays are aesthetically poorer, which likely means a different pedagogical value.
B
whether the loss in aesthetic quality that results from modernizing the language of premodern plays lessens the plays’ usefulness for teaching history
Carl agrees that modernized plays are less useful to teach history, but never specifies that it’s because of a loss of aesthetic quality. Lyle never compares the usefulness of modernized and original plays at all, just says that the latter are still useful.
C
whether the highest form of aesthetic enjoyment of premodern plays comes from seeing them as they were originally performed
Neither speaker makes this claim. Neither Lyle nor Carl discusses how one can get the most enjoyment of premodern plays, nor do they talk about seeing the plays performed versus reading them.
D
whether increasing the accessibility of premodern plays through modernizing their language is valuable for teaching history
Lyle thinks that this is true but Carl thinks that it’s false; this is the disagreement. Lyle says that modernized plays are useful because they’re more accessible. Carl argues that modernized plays are useless for teaching because they don’t give deep knowledge of the past.
E
whether using plays with modernized language to teach history requires that there be some loss in the aesthetic quality of the plays
Lyle agrees with this, but Carl doesn’t state an opinion. Carl doesn’t talk about aesthetic quality at all, instead giving different reasons why modernized plays are a poor tool for teaching history.

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